“It was good. It shows our kids, as good as we can be, we’re certainly beatable,” Red Hook coach Matt Hayes said. “We’ll get there. Marlboro, quite honestly, played better than us.”

Both teams moved to 12-4 for the season.

Hayes pointed toward several areas where his Raiders could improve for Monday, noting Marlboro scored eight points off inbounds plays, and beat his team to most “50-50” loose-ball opportunities. Hayes also said Wednesday’s game was the first his team had a negative assist-to-turnover ratio, 11-to-12.

Damien Lowe led the Iron Dukes with 14 points, and Julian Allen added 10. Marlboro outscored Red Hook 30-22 in the second half.

Marist’s Ryan Murphy won the 500-yard freestyle in a school-record time of 4 minutes, 30.66 seconds and John Spitzer was first in the 50 freestyle in a school-record time of 20.71 on the first day of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships on Thursday in Buffalo.

Scholastic skiing

New Paltz’s Colden Kimber and Lorenzo Mazzuca qualified for the boys state Nordic skiing championships, and the Huguenots’ Mia Potthast and Cami Ferguson qualified on the girls side, at the Section 9 championships on Wednesday at the Mohonk Mountain House.

Kimber and Mazzuca placed third and seventh at the meet, respectively, while Potthast and Ferguson were fourth and seventh.

The state meet will be held in Canandaigua Feb. 24-25.

Scholastic track and field

A trio of Beacon jumpers took individual Section 1 Class B titles at the Armory Track and Field Complex in New York late Wednesday.

James Brown won the boys high jump (6 feet, 3 inches), Terrel Davis won the boys triple jump (42-4.5), and Paige Baisley won the girls high jump (5-0).

Beacon’s David Adams placed second in the boys 300-meter dash (36.29), Brandon Booker took third in the boys 600 (1:27.53), David Adams was third in the boys 55 hurdles (8.24) and Rayvon Gray placed third in the boys triple jump (41-6.75).

Poughkeepsie won the Class A boys 800 relay (1:34.98) with the quartet of Malik Lewis, Jordan Finch, Nepaul Hanson and Cary Nicholson, while Rayshawn Small was fourth in the boys high jump (5-6) and fifth in the long jump (19-2).